An Update on Nisme
I've been extremely busy lately starting up APPCON, and I've neglected Nisme. I'm sorry about this, and with the recent launch of Google and Lala's partnership, I see an even greater need for an awesome desktop player for Lala.
I started Nisme almost a year ago, and back then it was pretty much what it is today. A pet project aimed at increasing my knowledge of C#. I have started thinking more and more about what Nisme can and cannot be. I've invariably gotten thousands (yes, litterally THOUSANDS) of emails asking me to make an app that either downloads mp3's, or some how circumvents the protection that Lala has put in place. I'll state this one time and one time only.
NO.
Now that that is out of the way, let's move on to what I have planned for Nisme. My goal over the next few months is to clean up the code and make the application more stable. I've never had the intention of adding the market into the player, as I think lala has already done an amazing job of that, and I have no intention of reinventing the wheel. Nisme was meant to be an enriched player for your music that lala hosts. Nothing more. I think it has done a wonderful job of doing that already, and I also think it has quite a ways to go before I consider it "complete".
Up until now I have never really defined what Nisme was and was not. I am going to start doing that, and you will soon see several blog posts in the near future detailing what new features I have in store for Nisme.
One final thing.
Alot of people have asked me what Nisme means. Nisme is the Sumerian word for "Hear", cleverly thought of by a close friend of mine, Adenansu (http://adenansu.com/). I hope I didn't crush any dreams of it meaning something more mystical, but hey, you get what you pay for, amirite?